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skyfaller wrote (edited )

This is a serious problem, that could be partly resolved by making windmills out of wood instead:

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/06/small-wooden-wind-turbines.html

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/06/wooden-wind-turbines.html

I say partly, because it may be difficult to build the increasingly enormous turbines favored by industry using only wood and other sustainable materials, and I'm willing to accept that there are some situations where only an enormous turbine will do. But I think we need to reconsider the tradeoff between size and sustainability.

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